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Germanic Collections
"Friendship and Freedom: Long live RDA and Chile"
- Victor Jara
Peter Porsch (1974)
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Victor Jara is widely recognized as one of the leaders of the New Song Movement in Chile which began in the 1960s and continued through the 70s. Other artists who defined the New Song Movement include folk singer Violeta Parra and the groups Inti-Illimani and Quilapayun.After September 11, 1973, all music by the artists was declared subversive and the discovery of possession of such recordings would lead to certain arrest. The New Song Movement had stongly identified itself with the Popular Unity government of Allende (la Unidad Popular), and the music lent inspiration and cohesiveness to the supporters of the Unidad Popular.
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"For Victor Jara"
Fernando (1974)
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Jara died at the hands of the military police approxmately one week after the Sept. 11, 1973 coup. He was taken from the Universidad Tecnica (which was damaged heavily by the military and later replaced by the current Universidad de Santiago de Chile) where he worked as a professor and taken with other university colleagues to the Estadio Chile, where he was held for several days with 5,000 other "subversives". While held there, he taught his fellow prisoners a song spontaneously penned at that moment for those present.
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"Requiem for Victor Jara"
Wolfgang Mattheuer (1973)
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Victor Jara is often commemorated with images of a destoyed guitar and bloody hands.
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"Picture for a Latin American singer"
Robert Rehfeldt (1983)
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According to the biography published by his wife, Joan Jara, who gathered testimonies of the survivors who were with him, Victor Jara was recognized by military officers as the famous member of the New Song movement. He could not pass unnoticed. His life was taken a few days after he was captured. A fellow communist party member recognized his body in a Santiago morgue in a heap of bodies, and secretively notified his wife, who came to identify the body and arrange for its burial in the same cemetary where Neruda is buried, the General Cemetery in Santiago.
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"For Victor Jara"
Eberhard Dietzsch
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At the annual Intergrafik exhibit in Former East Berlin, Chilean and East German artists displayed their work. Intergrafik 74 and Intergrafik 84 each had substantial amounts of artwork showing images depicting Victor Jara's tragic death.
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"Hommage to Victor Jara II"
Theo Balden (1984)
Last modified:
June 27, 2005
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